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ewnomistsunstougvilletribunerhukday april 15 1999 27 sports serhesterchange allows sdssphysical education teacher to return to codchihgranks hit stretching it to the limit stouffville district secondary schools will crothers stretches it to the limit in an attempt to return the shuttlecock during mondays yraazone e and f singles playdown against jason dun of middlefield collegiate institute at father mcgivney academy crothersltook the match 21 and advances to the york region finals on april 22 in newmarket seven may be the lucky number now that ontario has lifted the ban on craps in its casinos but for sportsminded students at stouffville district secondary school six is the magic number thats how many 75minute classes teachers are now required to teach every two days down from the 6 1 12 that led to the curtailment of extracurricular ath letics at the school last spring and nobody could be happier than 16year veteran sdss physical education teacher coach and all round sports fanatic jim fletcher fletch was born to coach with the return to the six-out-of- eight schedule in february enabling teachers to resume volunteer coaching hes been like a director of a threering circus juggling phys ed classes bad minton and volleyball tournaments this soon became apparent when 1 tried to catch up to him for results of the recent area f badminton tournament taking notes on the fly i first tracked him down in the physical education office where he was dishing out pats on the- back to students whose pledge sheets for the schools annual jump rope for heart fundraiser are overflow ing- then it was out to the school track there he encouraged a grade 11 boys phys ed class as they warmed up by run ning a few laps inthe freezing early april wind back to the gym where he supervised the coop students as they set up the badminton nets and split the class into pairs im busy the man known by stu dents and fellow staffers alike as the fletch acknowledged when i suggested he had his hands full with teaching and bruce stapley tournaments my wife hates me he shrugged allowing that his return to coaching has meant that he is once again accompanying sdss teams to tournaments on saturdays as well as til as late as 1 1 pm on week nights for fletcher the payoff is seeing the joy on the faces of the studentathletes every coach i know does it for the feed back from the kids youre in some thing together with them he says hes no different from the english teacher who gets all wrapped up in the school drama but it can only hap pen he cautions if teachers class loads are kept realistic im teaching six classes again like ive been used to any more than that and its impossible to find time to coach- provided the sixclass limit stays in effect for next year fletcher says hell be back at the helm of the sdss senior boys volleyball team in the fall with nine yraa championships under his belt in addition to six titles in the old durhamyork set up this will be like slipping on a comfortable old sweat shirt like other teachercoaches at sss fletcher is determined to give the sdss athletes something to put in their high school scrapbooks the phys ed office is plastered from ceiling to floor with sto ries from the local press celebrating vic tories of spartans teams throughout the years and fletcher always knows what his notable volleyball alumni are up to nice talking to you stap he bids as i turn to go with my notes and dont forget to come out for jump rope for heart next week please recycle economist sun stouffville tribune attention artists attention register now for lions art in the park elgin park uxbridge coming july 17th 18th spots are filling up quickly call 8526913 wwwuxbridgecomiionsart noiin3j1v sjsijdv noijn3 i vbjlip- jh fyou and the teams yoji nie c i t a april 12 13 14 15 tampa bay devil rays 705 pm april 1 2 home opener april 1 2 shoppers drug mart team calendar april 13 timbr marftuesdcr april 14 1 5 bell mobility magnet schedule night april 16 baltimore 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